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1. Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980

   By Kalenda C. Eaton

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s

   Blackness and Genre

   By Novotny Lawrence

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin’ and jivin’ caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as toms, coons and bucks, while the mammy and tragic mulatto archetypes circumscribed black femininity. This misrepresentation...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism in Twentieth-Century African American Writing

   By Tania Friedel

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book engages cosmopolitanism—a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality—in order to examine its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers. Deeply influenced and inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois, the...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone

   Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory

   By Melanie E. Bratcher

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic. Its purpose is three-fold: to show commonalities between Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone's lives and original compositions; to codify,...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Contemporary African American Theater

   Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller

   By Nilgun Anadolu-Okur

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   Published May 4th 2011 by Routledge
6. Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow’s Teachers

   By Hilton Kelly

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "inherently inferior" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as "good and valued" among former students,...

   Published January 5th 2010 by Routledge
7. The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights

   African Americans in San Francisco, 1945–1975

   By Paul T. Miller

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African American population grew by over 650% between 1940 and 1945. With this population increase came an increase in racial discrimination directed at...

   Published September 7th 2009 by Routledge
8. Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture

   By Shawan M. Worsley

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images....

   Published August 18th 2009 by Routledge
9. Black Liberation in the Midwest

   The Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1970

   By Kenneth Jolly

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book offers a response to the inadequate examination of the Midwest in Civil Rights Movement scholarship - scholarship that continues to ignore the city of St. Louis and the Black liberation struggle that took place there. Jolly examines this local movement and organizations such as the Black...

   Published June 8th 2009 by Routledge
10. Swinging the Vernacular

    Jazz and African American Modernist Literature

    By Michael Borshuk

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic significance of stylistic changes in the music....

    Published June 8th 2009 by Routledge